Word: cynics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to admit it ... I went into the experience with my Cynic Ray set to stun. I had visions of Michael Jackson teaching HAL the computer to moonwalk, Coppola making a cameo appearance as Jabba the Hut belching 3-D jelly donuts, all to the tune of "Billy Jean," with brand new Eastman-Kodak lyrics...
...arms, and reflects on his duties. "My biggest job," he says, "is to create the atmosphere where creative people can do well. There are a lot of people running hard in this institution, and there has been a remarkable absence of smugness and self-satisfaction." Only a cynic would find in that statement a faint touch of self-satisfaction...
...self-denial of junior year reboundedin senior year with an almost kaleidoscopic rushinto sincerity. I had been known among friends andby those who read my rantings in The Crimson as asnide cynic who relished cutting down everythingin my sights. By senior year, that no longersatisfied me, because I concluded in part that,since everything in life in inherently flawed,there is little inherent value to firing rhetorcalblasts at will. That conclusion seeped over intomy personal relationships, where I tried to resisttrashing others in the manner to which I wasaccustomed. The change left me at one pointexasperatedly trying to explain...
...cynic might say that this surge only looks like an increase given the tremendous decline in public service since the '60s and early '70s. But Epps says he thinks it's different. "It's got to be larger than the '60s," he comments...
...Ralph: A cynic might say she is using a marketable shtik, Wanda. Your dowager aunt can be counted on to ask about the children, but Ruth -- looking so tiny, wholesome and middle-aged -- leans forward sweetly and asks you what setting you use on your five-speed vibrator. It's a brilliant effect, a variation on about 40 familiar dirty jokes. It wouldn't work at all if she were a normal size, or if she looked and sounded sexy. Apart from two or three of those sharp comments per show, she has the wit to play the straight...